Word: lapping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week, when Captain Kramer was reported by the Hearst press to be "missing," only to be found within a few minutes at the Navy's Bethesda Hospital (see PRESS). In some ways the investigation might be the biggest Congressional show since the midget sat on Morgan's lap. But at last the facts of the most rankling disaster in U.S. history would be spread on the public record...
...investigation had been going on quietly for a year and a half. Into Parliament's lap last week Justice Minister Louis Stephen St. Laurent dropped the 60-page, 30,000-word summary: a report on cartels, their effect on Canadians, what should be done about them. Chief investigator was Fred A. McGregor, Commissioner of Canada's Combines [Monopolies] Investigation Act. Examples of what be reported...
...sheer desperation, the Administration plans to go to Congress soon, dump the problem squarely in its lap, request the right to barter surplus goods abroad for new embassy sites, landing rights for civil aviation (which the U.S. has got free by reciprocal agreements) and scholarships in foreign universities for U.S. students...
...week's end the problem was still in Attlee's lap. President Truman, not visibly embarrassed, thought Attlee would agree to admit more than 1800 Jews monthly to Palestine...
Should the Federal Government subsidize its war-built aluminum plants to keep them running? Last week this thorny problem was dropped into the lap of Congress...